earth-sprite

Updated: June 21, 2025

An ominous silence answered the accustomed war-cry, uttered in an unsteady falsetto, and the ruins had a more than usually dejected look, as though they had suddenly lost all hope of themselves. He called again, and this time, like an earth-sprite, Frances Wilmot rose up from a sheltered corner and waved to him.

I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie - The Dark House